Peer Pressure

I’ve got a major dilemma.  Ashley is planning this dinner and strip bar extravaganza for Erin and Jason before the their wedding.

The problem: Brian just absolutely hates strip bars.  I figured that I could convince him to go, but it’s not working out too well.  I’m thinking that he will go, if I insist, but he will be totally miserable.  If we’re lucky, that’s all I’ll have to contend with.  If we’re not, it may cause a lot of conflict between us.

To go or not to go, that is the question.

You’re probably thinking to yourself “The answer is clear, silly girl.”  Don’t go.  The more I ponder my conundrum, the more that I realize it’s the right thing to do.  I should put Brian before anything or anyone else.  He’s my husband, for crying out loud!  I can’t just force him to do what I want to..  Besides, it’s not even something that I really want to do.  Why risk conflict over it?

And you thought you wouldn’t have face peer pressure ever again after high school!  We never can escape it.  It’s all around us, in everything that we say and do..

July 31, 2004 | Posted by Ching under Life

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Busy Week

I can already tell this will be a busy week.  Work has been really hectic and we’ve got a lot of things going on besides the usual bumming around that we do.  Brent invited us to come over and watch Starsky and Hutch sometime this week with him and Chelsea.  We’ve got it coming through Netflix, but it may take some time because it says on their website that there’s a bit of a wait on that title.  It would be nice to be able to just rent it and be done with so we can cross it off our movies-to-watch list.

We haven’t really done anything with Brent and Chelsea in a while because we have been really busy.  I think, before last night, the last time the four of us had dinner together was at Felipe’s Jr a couple of weeks ago.  And we didn’t even do anything.  All we did was eat dinner.

We were supposed to watch Incubus in concert for Chelsea’s birthday on Sunday but the concert has been postponed.  Brian and I ended up watching The Bourne Supremacy by ourselves because Brent and Chelsea aren’t that fond of Matt Damon.  Afterwards, Brent and Chelsea met up with us at Johnny Carino’s.  Brian bought dinner as part of Chelsea’s birthday present.  We got her the Alice in Wonderland DVD because that’s what Brent said she wanted movie-wise.  Either that or the second season of Invader Zim on DVD but we couldn’t find it.

I don’t know when we will be able to get with them to watch Starsky and Hutch.  We’ve got lots of things going on this week.  We’ve got the Keller-Williams patio/salsa party on Thursday night and then my old hair stylist Man’s (she used to work at Planet Hair) grand opening party for her new salon, Urban Image, on Friday night.  For Saturday, I traded with Seth so I could attend Erin’s lingerie shower at Yia-Yia’s.  So instead of working from 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM, I’m working 4:30 PM to 12:30 AM.  It’s gonna suck, but you gotta do what you gotta do.

Of course, Sunday is movie day.  Brian and I will probably go see The Village.  We’ve enjoyed M. Night Shyamalan’s other movies in the past (Unbreakable, Signs) so this might prove to be a good movie also.

Anyway, if you don’t see me post anything else this week, you know where to find me.

P.S. I did really well at poker last night.  I placed 4th during the 1st session and then 3rd during the 2nd session!  Usually, I do really well one session and then really crappy the other, but I did extremely well during both sessions last night.  My poker skills must be improving!  He!  He!  

July 27, 2004 | Posted by Ching under Life, Movies, Poker

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The Bourne Supremacy

Brian and I watched The Bourne Supremacy this evening.  I loved it.  It was great.  I love Matt Damon, anyway, so he can’t do anything wrong in my eyes..  Except, of course, Stuck on You.  That was a dumb one.

The only thing I didn’t like about The Bourne Supremacy was that it had sexist undertones.  I mean, give me a break.  Pam couldn’t figure out that something was off.  Like, seriously, did she really think that Jason would leave his fingerprint?  This is a guy who is trained to be invisible.  It took a young and lowly peon to figure out that something was off.

The impression I got was that it took a man to figure out that Jason was being framed by someone else.  He was low ranking in the organization and kind of dumb but he was the first one to actually figured it out.

It took a tape for Pam to finally figure out what was right in front of her nose.  And I didn’t like that too much.

The was the only thing that bugged me.  Overall, I really enjoyed the movie.  I felt bad for Marie, though, because she didn’t play much of a part in the sequel.  Oh, well.  At least she’s still in it.

July 25, 2004 | Posted by Ching under Movies

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Legends of Bartending

We were watching the Legends of Bartending World Championships last night of The Food Network.  Gosh, these guys (and girls) do some pretty amazing things.  I thought bartending was bartending.  I had no idea there was such a thing as flair bartending.  After you advance to the finals (only twelve finalists get to advance), the competition has four events or rounds: speed, accuracy, working flair and entertainment flair.

Christian Delpech interview in Las Vegas Weekly The reigning king of bartending, Christian Delpech won first place.  His brother came in second and his girlfriend came in 11th or 12th.  I can’t remember specifically, but the narrator made a big deal out of it considering it was her first competition.

You thought Tom Cruise was hot in Cocktail?  Christian makes Tom look like a chump!  Here’s a video showing some highlights of what these entertainment flair bartenders can do (it’s a large video file so it may take a while to download, you may want to skip it altogether if you’re on dialup).  I don’t know if Christian is still bartending these days.  I believe he’s retired.  If he’s still bartending, I would sure like to see him perform in person.  It’s very impressive stuff.

[update] If you go to the Flair Devils website, it says that he’s still working at Carnaval Court in Harrah’s Las Vegas.  I don’t know if that info is outdated but it sure makes me wanna go! [/update]

July 25, 2004 | Posted by Ching under Life

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Incubus Canceled

I just got word that the Incubus concert for which we been holding tickets for over two months now has been either postponed or canceled.  Blah.

No one knows what is going on.  I called Dillon’s, where we purchased our tickets, and they don’t know anything either.  The guy gave me the phone number to the Select-A-Seat box office at the Kansas Colliseum but they freakin’ closed at 2PM.  The tickets are still being sold on the website.  What gives?

I guess, I will just try to Google it.  Google always has the answers.

July 24, 2004 | Posted by Ching under Life

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Online Photo Sharing

There’s a great article about the growing popularity of online photo sharing in the July/August 2004 issue of Technology Review.  It’s about time someone noticed!

July 22, 2004 | Posted by Ching under Web

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Flickr

I’ve been messing around online a lot lately. I get off at six o’clock now and I usually have a couple of hours before Brian’s gets home from work at eight so I’ve had a couple of hours to myself to just goof around the internet.

As you can see, I’ve discovered Flickr which truly is the coolest thing since sliced bread. It’s what generates the row of random thumbnail pictures above. Too bad it’s a Canadian product. Just kidding! No offense to all you Canadians out there, eh?

Anyway, have you all tried the newest version of Yahoo! Messenger? It’s loaded with features! I can still remember back in the day when it was still Yahoo! Pager. Now it’s capable of all sorts of things. It’s really neat. Then again, I’m easily amused. So maybe it’s not so neat to normal people. But then you won’t find out if you don’t try it now, will you?

July 21, 2004 | Posted by Ching under Web

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A Walk on the Moon

Brian and I just finished watching A Walk on the Moon. Pearl (Diane Lane) cheats on her husband Marty (Liev Schreiber) with Walker Jerome “the blouseman” (Viggo Mortensen). I felt so bad for Marty because he plays such a nice guy. He didn’t deserve to be cuckolded. By the way, you can catch Liev in his new movie, The Manchurian Candidate. It looks very promising.

At any rate, have you ever noticed how Diane Lane is always cheating on her movie husbands and getting away with it? What’s up with that?

I’m so glad that Viggo has since stepped away from the “lover” roles. I realize that he has been a movie actor forever but I didn’t really notice him until A Perfect Murder (Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow). He’s such a great actor and I feared that he would get pigeon-holed. Thank God for The Lord of the Rings.

To other Viggo fans out there. If you haven’t already seen A Walk on the Moon, I highly recommend it. There’s a tremendously sexy waterfall scene that will get you dreaming of Viggo for weeks.

July 18, 2004 | Posted by Ching under Movies

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I, Robot

Brian and I were going to play poker at Whiskey Creek after dinner at Abuelo’s but when we found out that I, Robot was playing in the balcony (main auditorium) we decided to watch it instead.  We figured we were going to go play poker tomorrow night at Fingers anyway, might as well watch a movie tonight.

We really shouldn’t have gone to dinner at Abuelo’s because we are broke, but Brian doesn’t ever like to go there so when he asked if we could go there for dinner I agreed. The mature thing would have been to say no because we are broke.. But usually I have to beg and plead and even then he doesn’t want to go. I figured I had no choice but to take this opportunity.

Of course, we could’ve gotten regular seats instead of sitting in the balcony too. We could’ve saved money there. There are just some luxuries that one cannot forgo. Much like some people can’t drink any kind of water except for Perrier, if a movie is playing in the main auditorium of 13th Avenue Warren we have to see it in the balcony.

I, Robot was really good. I won’t ruin the movie for you by giving you any details. All I can say is that the twist is really good. It’s kind of an action-packed feel-good movie. The ending is all warm and fuzzy.

Okay, that’s all I’ll say. Go watch it.

July 18, 2004 | Posted by Ching under Movies

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Mom and Dad’s website has suffered major comment spam in the last few months.  I’ve been really lazy to do something about it.  I feel really guilty too because the fix was pretty simple.

I mean, comment spam has been an ongoing problem for Movable Type.  It’s their Achilles’ heel, so to speak.  I guess it’s an easy hack.  Bots just swarm and post one worthless message after another.  If you’re like me, who doesn’t really check comments regularly, then it takes months before you even detect the problem.

Anyway, I finally got around to installing MT-Blacklist and it works great!  I had problems adding the master blacklist at first because I wanted to add it all in one shot and the list was just too long.  I chopped it up into bite-sited sections (I love cut-and-paste) and finally got my blacklist going.  That should be the end of the comment spam (for now, at least, until the bad guys figure out a way around the blacklist).

Jay Allen is my savior!  

July 16, 2004 | Posted by Ching under Web

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